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Example sentences for "unworthy"

Lexicographically close words:
unworshipped; unworth; unworthies; unworthily; unworthiness; unwound; unwounded; unwrap; unwrapped; unwrapping
  1. To speak of studio lighting as artificial and unworthy is silly.

  2. De man dat kin fergit w'at Miss Noble has done fer dis town is unworthy de name er nigger!

  3. A white man who would disfranchise a Negro because of his color or for mere party advantage is himself unworthy of the suffrage.

  4. He used to give as his reason for wearing his beard of unusual size "that no act of his life might be unworthy of the gravity of his appearance.

  5. St Jerome pronounced these adornments as unworthy of Christianity.

  6. But let not this doctrine, so full of truth and so excellent, fall into the hands of those unworthy of it, where it would be despised and contemned, treated shamefully, ridiculed and censured.

  7. She sometimes wondered and was afraid when she thought of it, looking upon herself as being altogether unworthy of so many joys.

  8. I am a wicked bad girl and unworthy of your love, indeed I am.

  9. George Sand has a great name, and the 'Tower of Percemont' is not unworthy of it.

  10. She understood how she or any woman could love this good and noble man; but why should he worship in this way one so unworthy as her!

  11. Now is not all this unworthy a rational and immortal being?

  12. How unworthy of our nature, and of the Being who formed us, is this view.

  13. Disdain, as unworthy your nature and your sex, the practice of prying into the domestic affairs of others.

  14. Michael is unworthy to be a King; Marulitch, at the best, is a poor-spirited wretch; and after them there is no Delgrado.

  15. But there still remained a vengeance, dire and far reaching, which would teach a bitter lesson to those who had entered into so unworthy a conspiracy.

  16. Treat the matter as unworthy of notice, and you will very possibly hear no more of it!

  17. That's about all there is to tell, except that from the day he left you to this, he has borne his burden like a man, and he has never once done anything unworthy of you.

  18. Let him account himself utterly and hopelessly unworthy of everything he possesses, both in nature and in grace.

  19. I am, your lordship's unworthy servant and subject, Teresa of Jesus.

  20. When you become, as you soon must, completely convinced that the woman, in whom your unsuspecting soul confided, is utterly unworthy of your esteem, refrain from all imprudent expressions of indignation.

  21. Consider this before, unworthy as I am, you reject me from your esteem.

  22. You are wrong to show so much kindness to people who show themselves unworthy of it.

  23. Our Eugene, you see, is worthy of his father; and I trust you do not think me an unworthy successor of the great and unfortunate general, under whom 1 should have been proud to learn to conquer.

  24. The "society" referred to is unmistakably that business of exchanging entertainments which most of us do pass by as "a frivolous and unworthy institution;" but which some find the sufficient occupation of a lifetime.

  25. He sees women as females--and does not see that they are human; the universal mistake of the world behind us; but one unworthy of a mind that sees the world before us so vividly.

  26. And it was no unworthy thing that she was doing.

  27. But no; that is open to the suffragist as well as to any; and no one ever called it a frivolous and unworthy institution.

  28. The unworthy negotiation was transacted by faithful emissaries, who passed alternately from one candidate to the other, and acquainted each of them with the offers of his rival.

  29. Whilst he thus abandoned the reins of empire to these unworthy favorites, he valued nothing in sovereign power, except the unbounded license of indulging his sensual appetites.

  30. Such was the unworthy fate of the wife and daughter of Diocletian.

  31. They disdained to serve the luxurious indolence of his unworthy son.

  32. Before we enter upon the memorable reign of that prince, it will be proper to punish and dismiss the unworthy brother of Numerian.

  33. He scattered libels through the camp, inviting the troops to desert an unworthy master, who sacrificed the public happiness to his luxury, and the lives of his most valuable subjects to the slightest suspicions.

  34. At the time when the East trembled at the name of Sapor, he received a present not unworthy of the greatest kings; a long train of camels, laden with the most rare and valuable merchandises.

  35. Against such unworthy adversaries, Cicero condescended to employ the arms of reason and eloquence; but the satire of Lucian was a much more adequate, as well as more efficacious, weapon.

  36. In the most corrupt of times, Carinus was unworthy to live: Numerian deserved to reign in a happier period.

  37. Whatever might be the merit or fortune of their sons, they likewise were esteemed unworthy of a seat in the senate; nor were the traces of a servile origin allowed to be completely obliterated till the third or fourth generation.

  38. The eyes of Tacitus were scarcely closed, before his brother Florianus showed himself unworthy to reign, by the hasty usurpation of the purple, without expecting the approbation of the senate.

  39. Instead of listening to such unworthy suspicions, the prudent monarch associated Titus to the full powers of the Imperial dignity; and the grateful son ever approved himself the humble and faithful minister of so indulgent a father.

  40. But as the use of irony may seem unworthy of the gravity of the Roman mint, M.

  41. In the sixth month of the third year ago, it chanced that this unworthy person, at that time engaged in commercial affairs at Knei Yang, became inextricably immersed in the insidious delights of quail-fighting.

  42. Nothing would confer more pleasurable agitation upon this unworthy person than an opportunity of narrating his entire stock to them.

  43. Would he not, in consideration for this, consent to receive me as a son-in-law, and dismiss the inelegant and unworthy Li Ting?

  44. Becoming at length terrified at the possibility of these unworthy emotions, obtruding themselves upon this person's notice, the two in question fled together, taking with them the one who without any doubt is now before me.

  45. This unworthy thought, however, could not long withstand the memory of Mian's steadfast and high-minded affection, and the certainty of her enlightened gladness at his return even in the imperfect condition which he anticipated.

  46. Beloved Mian," exclaimed Ling, with inspiring vehemence, "and is not the utterly unworthy person before you indebted to you in a double measure that life is still within him?

  47. It is not an unworthy or abandoned decision," said the one whose aid Ling had invoked, "nor a matter in which this person would refrain from taking part, were there no other and more agreeable means by which the same results may be attained.

  48. A most unworthy and unnatural lord Can do no more.

  49. Another turn of the centuries' wheel and the gift of this chapel's founder was once again thought unworthy of the altar to which it had been presented.

  50. In it, nearly a decade after he had pointed Erasmus's satire on the unworthy prelate or the unclean friar, may plainly be read that reverence for the true priest which Holbein shared with all his best friends.

  51. Like them he couched his lance against the unworthy priest, the gluttonous or licentious monk, the wolves in sheep's clothing that were destroying the fold from within.

  52. The League of Nations was to be based upon mutual confidence and good fellowship, yet one of its most powerful future members was so distrusted as to be declared permanently unworthy to possess any overseas colonies.

  53. But the administration will possess the right to dismiss those who prove unworthy of their confidence.

  54. If that with hands reverent and pure and holy I drag some relics from the unworthy shade, Thou wilt assist, and fashion visions wholly After the pattern which thyself hast made!

  55. He had not been unworthy and faithless, as she had imagined; there had been some good reason why he had not come to her during the early days of her trouble.

  56. Thus she believed that he had deserted her, like most of her other fair-weather friends, and was trying to make herself believe that he was unworthy of her regard.

  57. Nor in that hour did the young and popular Saxon earl bear himself in a manner unworthy of his position as one of the great race which for six centuries had given kings and war-chiefs to the British isles.

  58. His friends regarded him with idolatry; and his enemies, forced to admit that he seemed not unworthy of his position, became quiescent.

  59. But exactly the opposite happened to those whom the king of Portugal compelled to become Christians, for they always, though converted, lived apart, inasmuch as they were considered unworthy of any civic honours.

  60. It is true, one was always hungry, and only ten and a half hours' sleep was a refinement of cruelty unworthy of a great institution.

  61. Then your lover was a villain unworthy the name of man.

  62. Hadst thou less unworthy proved: Would to God--for I had loved thee More than ever wife was loved.

  63. Yes, I remember them, but such sentiments are unworthy of you, Mr. Charteris.

  64. It was the work likewise of Lely, and had all the fidelity and graceful refinement of that great master; nor was the haughty countenance of Sir Reginald unworthy the patrician painter.


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    Other words:
    abominable; arrant; atrocious; bad; base; black; blameworthy; contemptible; criminal; damnable; dark; disgraceful; dishonorable; evil; execrable; flagrant; foul; heinous; improper; infamous; inferior; iniquitous; knavish; low; miserable; monstrous; naughty; nefarious; nothing; outrageous; peccant; preposterous; rank; reprehensible; reprobate; scandalous; shabby; shameful; sinful; undeserved; undesirable; undue; unforgivable; unmerited; unpardonable; unprofessional; unsatisfactory; unspeakable; unwarranted; unworthy; value; vicious; vile; villainous; wicked; worthless; wrong